• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Prof Lorna Hutson , Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford) , Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Weeks 1, 3, 5 and 7. Tuesdays, 5.15pm

Tuesday 15 October 2019

• 17:15 - Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
  Prof Nandini Das (University of Oxford), Dr Joao Melo (University of Oxford), Dr Haig Smith (University of Oxford), Dr Lauren Working (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 October 2019

• 17:15 - Matters of metre c. 1550-1650: the sixteenth-century transformation of Latin verse and its impact on English poetics
  Dr Victoria Moul (University College, London)

Tuesday 12 November 2019

• 17:30 - Apostrophe and Vitality in Baroque Poetry
  Dr Guilio Pertile (University of St Andrews)

Tuesday 26 November 2019

• 17:30 - CANCELLED - Erasmus on Imitation
  This event has been cancelled due to industrial action.
  Prof Brian Cummings (University of York)

Tuesday 21 January 2020

• 17:15 - ‘Kings of the Road? Royal and vagrant mobility in Jonson, statutes and stories
  Sue Wiseman (University of London)

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 17:15 - George Chapman, Edward Coke and 'mitior sensus'
  Professor Jessica Wolfe (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 17:15 - The Physics of Poetic Form in Arthur Golding's Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses
  Dr Liza Blake (University of Toronto)

Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 17:15 - 'Pericles, scattered'
  Prof Adam Smyth (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 May 2020

• 17:15 - Renaissance Imitatio: Colin Burrow, Kathy Eden and Brian Cummings in conversation
  Professor Colin Burrow (University of Oxford), Professor Kathy Eden (Columbia University), Professor Brian Cummings (University of York)

Tuesday 9 June 2020

• 17:15 - Hot off the Press: Discussion Group on Recent Renaissance Criticism
  Dr Katie Murphy, Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxfordhttps://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-lorna-hutson)

Tuesday 13 October 2020

• 17:15 - Meet the Faculty
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 27 October 2020

• 17:30 - Scattered Texts: The Cases of Pericles and Venus and Adonis
  Prof Adam Smyth (University of Oxford), Professor Joshua Eckhardt (VCU)

Tuesday 10 November 2020

• 17:15 - Theories and Things in Early Modern Studies
  Rachel Eisendrath (Barnard College), Dr Joe Moshenska (University College)

Tuesday 24 November 2020

• 17:15 - Reading Group: Spenser and Race
  TBA

Tuesday 27 April 2021

• 15:15 - ‘ “Not as a poet, but a pioneer”: Fancy and the Colonial Gaze in William Davenant’s Madagascar (1638)’
  Dr Lauren Working (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• 17:15 - Teaching Early Modern Literature and Race: A Roundtable
  Kimberley Coles (Maryland), Dennis Britton (University of New Hampshire), Hannah Crawforth (King's College, London), Jyotsna Singh (Michigan State University)

Tuesday 25 May 2021

• 17:15 - Distracted Globes, Attentive Spirits, Thronged Doors: The Playhouse as a Form of Thought
  Will West (Northwestern University)

Tuesday 8 June 2021

• 17:15 - 'On Being Attached’ from Rita Felski, Hooked: Reflections on Art and Attachment (2020)
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 12 October 2021

• 17:15 - ‘The Sex of Style: Women, Poetry and Criticism in the Seventeenth Century’
  Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Kings, London)

Tuesday 26 October 2021

• 17:15 - ‘Forging Women’s Networks in Lanyer’s Salve Deus’
  Ramie Targoff (Brandeis University)

Thursday 4 November 2021

• 17:15 - Special lecture by Stephen Greenblatt: ‘The Master’s Books’
  Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard)

Tuesday 9 November 2021

• 17:00 - Wells Shakespeare Lectures by Bill Sherman: ‘Decoding Shakespeare’, Lecture I: ‘How to Make Anything Signify Anything’
  Professor Bill Sherman

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 17:15 - Reading & Discussion Group: Extracts from Melissa Sanchez Queer Faith (NYU Press, 2019)
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 18 January 2022

• 17:15 - 'Play the whole thing backwards: Radio Nashe’
  Esther Osorio Whewell (Corpus, Oxford)

Tuesday 1 February 2022

• 17:15 - ‘Seneca, rhetoric, and the writing of character in early modern English drama’
  Curtis Perry (Ohio), Professor Lorna Hutson (Merton, Oxford)

Tuesday 15 February 2022

• 17:15 - Race and Drama, East and West : Interdisciplinary Roundtable
  Simon Park (St Anne's College, Oxford), Prof Nandini Das (University of Oxford), Ewan McDonald (Oxford)

Tuesday 1 March 2022

• 17:15 - ‘Erasmus on Trust’
  Brian Cummings

Tuesday 26 April 2022

• 17:15 - 'Lifelikeness and Deathlikeness in Shakespeare'
  Professor Katharine Craik (Oxford Brookes), Dr Jennifer Edwards (The Queen’s College, Oxford)

Tuesday 10 May 2022

• 17:15 - ‘Admonitory Laughter, Prosopopoeia, and the Promise of Tudor Evangelical Literature.’
  Professor Adrian Streete (Glasgow)

Tuesday 24 May 2022

• 17:15 - 'Fearing the Body of the Witch: Gerontophobia and Transphobia in Early Modern Drama'
  Dr Ezra Horbury (University of York)

Friday 27 May 2022

• 17:15 - 'Turn, Verse, Trope'
  Professor Jeff Dolven (Princeton)

Tuesday 7 June 2022

• 17:15 - Reading Group, details tbc.
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 11 October 2022

• 17:15 - Meet the Faculty
  Professor Peter McCullough (University of Oxford), Prof Adam Smyth (University of Oxford), Professor Noël Sugimura

Tuesday 25 October 2022

• 17:15 - Modernist Metaphysics: Empson, Donne and the Science of Feeling
  Dr Sophie Read (Christs College, Cambridge)

Tuesday 8 November 2022

• 17:15 - Marina, Perdita, Eunuchus and The Rope: Slavery, Race and Genre in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean
  Professor Susanne Wofford (New York University)

Tuesday 22 November 2022

• 17:15 - "'I Am the Subject of My Own Book: A Case for Scholarship in the First Person.”
  Prof. Leonard Barkan

Tuesday 17 January 2023

• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Seminar: Bart Van Es and Lorna Hutson in conversation on England’s Insular Imagining
  Bart van Es (Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxfordhttps://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-lorna-hutson)

Tuesday 31 January 2023

• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Seminar: Women Walking in Shakespeare
  Dr Eleanor Rycroft (University of Bristol)

Tuesday 14 February 2023

• 17:15 - CANCELLED: Early Modern English Literature Seminar: Ghost Kings
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Sarah Knight (University of Leicester)

Tuesday 28 February 2023

• 12:30 - Early Modern English Literature Seminar: The First Folio at 400: What Are We Celebrating?
  Emma Smith, Ben Higgins, Amy Lidster

Tuesday 25 April 2023

• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Seminar: ‘Sightscapes: Image and Text in Early Modern Women’s Marginalia’
  Professor Ros Smith (Australian National University’)

Tuesday 23 May 2023

• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Seminar: ‘Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England’
  Dr Dan Blank (Durham University)

Tuesday 6 June 2023

• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Seminar: ‘Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race’
  Please note this seminar will be held on Teams
  Professor Noémie Ndiaye (University of Chicago)

Tuesday 10 October 2023

• 17:15 - ‘Meet the Faculty’
  Professor Helen Moore, Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Diane Purkiss, Dr Philip West

Monday 23 October 2023

• 17:15 - ‘Do Shakespeare’s Characters Mean What They Say?’
  Professor Jeffrey Knapp

Tuesday 7 November 2023

• 17:15 - The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition and Argument, 1479-1630: A conversation
  Dr Katrin Ettenhuber (Pembroke College, Cambridge)

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 17:15 - 'Milton's Faulty Media: Allegory and Accommodation in Paradise Lost'
  Dr Namratha Rao (University of York)

Tuesday 16 January 2024

• 17:15 - David Hillman (Cambridge), ‘Shaking Spears: Salutation and its Undoing in Troilus and Cressida’
  TBA

Tuesday 30 January 2024

• 16:00 - Unfinished Conversations on Early Modern Women’s Writing: ‘Still Kissing the Rod?’ #3
  Professor Rosalind Smith (Australian National University), Danielle Clarke (University College Dublin), Professor Sarah Ross (Victoria University of Wellington), Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Kings, London)

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 12:30 - Reading and Discussion: "Adhad Noor Desai, Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature & the Poetics of Decomposition" (Cornell, 2015)
  TBA

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 17:15 - Su Fang Ng (Virginia Tech), ‘Milton and Imperial Cartography’
  TBA

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 17:15 - ‘Hecuba from Page to Stage in Early Modern England’ and ‘“Numbers flowe?” Plato’s Numbers and Spenser’s Line’
  Carla Suthren (St Catz), Beth Dubow (Oriel)

Tuesday 7 May 2024

• 17:15 - What is literary history now? Recovering the premodern textual world in the 21st century
  Prof. Warren Boutcher (Queen Mary, University of London)

Tuesday 14 May 2024

• 17:30 - Happy Pills and Horoscopes: Collecting and Using Early Modern Almanacs 1600-1800
  Prof Paul Salzman (La Trobe)

Tuesday 4 June 2024

• 17:15 - Ghost Kings
  Professor Sarah Knight (University of Leicester)

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 17:15 - ‘Meet the Faculty’
  Professor Paulina Kewes (Jesus College, Oxford), Professor Kathryn Murphy (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 12:30 - Reading Group: Valerie Traub, 'Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns'
  TBA

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 17:30 - Oxford Wells Lectures
  Professor Kathryn Schwarz (Vanderbilt)

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 17:15 - What are Poetical Essays?
  Dr Ted Tregear (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 17:15 - ‘Cattle of this Colour: Boy Actors and the Engendering of Race’
  Harry McCarthy (Exeter University)

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 17:15 - ‘Maplessness, encyclopaedism and the emotion of absolute uncertainty in early modern scientific poetry’
  Kevin Killeen (University of York)

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 12:30 - Reading Group: Samuel Daniel’s Musophilus with Ted Tregear
  TBA

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 17:15 - ‘Dumb Action’
  Gill Woods (University of Oxford)